Police said Saturday they had seized more than 11/2 tons of cocaine in northern Colombia in a raid on a processing lab, and they blamed drug traffickers for killing three police officers in Medellin.
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Police said Friday's raid by a special anti-narcotics police unit near the town of Puerto Triunfo, 75 miles north of Bogota, yielded more than 3,000 pounds of cocaine.Authorities also seized processing equipment and about 25,000 gallons of ether, acetone and other chemicals used to make cocaine, they said.